STRANGE termcap-like problem

[Rick Kelly]

In article <159 at kbvan.com> dave at kbvan.com (Dave Van Allen) writes:
>
>Any help will be _greatly_ appreciated!  We are having a problem with
>what appears to be a termcap related symptom list.  Every so often, 6
>times a day, someone will login on a terminal and get garbage and
>control / formatting charactors:
>
>     Instead of a line  _____________________________
>
>     You get  \D\D\D\D\D\D\D\
>
>Sometimes the terminal will fill completely up with garbage, top to
>bottom. MOST of the time everything works fine.
>
>There is NO pattern to this, it happens on all terminals including the
>console.  Additionally, we are running filePro V3 as the engine to our
>database mailorder program.  Occasionally when writing out the file with
>"esc esc" the screen will attempt to redraw and over write part of the
>previous screen. During this mess, something throws the pointer way off
>on the input processing table, placing the user at a random position in
>processing. Example: If "esc esc" was _suppose to_ write the record, clear
>the screen and place the user in the ready for next record mode, when this
>'glitch' occures, the record is NOT written, the next screen TRYS to write
>and fails part way, and the user is thrown into a browse lookup.
>
>There is NO way (we believe) that the processing is at fault because the
>system has been up and running fine for a year. We have changed nothing.
>
>Also we have checked the obvious, cables, connectors etc.  This is a big
>problem for us and any, I mean ANY suggestions will be appreciated.
>
>The system:     Tandy (I know!) 4000 [16mHz 386] 4 meg memory      
>                670 meg SCSI HD / SCSI TAPE BU
>                SCO Xenix 2.3.2gt - NO SLS patches applied
>		Tandy 4 port boards (2) Z80 buffered I think?
>		Tandy DT-110 Terminals (6) Termcap from SCO
>
>The software:   filePro V3.0 (Small Computer Co) 6-16 user version
>		Custom programming for application
>


This is probably an RS-232 problem.  Check out your hardware first.  It
probably has nothing to do with termcap.


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